2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

1. Dr. Eric Loken Pennsylvania State University [biography]

   Eric Loken is a Research Associate Professor at Penn State specializing in applied statistical analysis with an emphasis on education and health data. Funding for this work was supported by NSF grant GSE/RES 1036731.

2. Zita Oravecz Pennsylvania State University [biography]

   Zita Oravecz is an assistant professor in the department of Human Development and Family Studies at Penn State University. Her research interests involve hierarchical Bayesian modeling, psychometrics,
   intensive longitudinal data, and latent variable modeling. She also focuses on individual differences (e.g., in well-being, cognitive functioning) from a process modeling perspective.

3. Dr. Conrad Tucker Pennsylvania State University, University Park [biography]

   Dr. Tucker holds a joint appointment as Assistant Professor in Engineering Design and Industrial Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. He is also affiliate faculty in Computer Science and Engineering. He teaches Introduction to Engineering Design (EDSGN 100) at the undergraduate level and developed and taught a graduate-level course titled Data Mining–Driven Design (EDSGN 561). As part of the Engineering Design Program’s “Summers by Design” (SBD) program, Dr. Tucker supervises students from Penn State during the summer semester in a two-week engineering design program at the École Centrale de Nantes in Nantes, France.

   Dr. Tucker is the director of the Design Analysis Technology Advancement (D.A.T.A) Laboratory. His research interests are in formalizing system design processes under the paradigm of knowledge discovery, optimization, data mining, and informatics. His research interests include applications in complex systems design and operation, product portfolio/family design, and sustainable system design optimization in the areas of engineering education, energy generation systems, consumer electronics, environment, and national security.

4. Mr. Fridolin Jakob Linder Pennsylvania State University [biography]

   Fridolin Linder is a graduate student in the Department of Political Science at Pennsylvania State University. His work is supported by Pennsylvania State University and the National Science Foundation under an IGERT award # DGE-1144860, Big Data Social Science

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